good progress,is that a monza i spy beside her?
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good progress,is that a monza i spy beside her?
that is a 3.0 GSE auto monza yes...just sat there :( slowly rotting away. its a shame. guy collects them for spares apparantly. i did have a nose at the mot cert on the seat...epic error on the milage...one of the old hand written ones with it say 1173317 LMAO
new update..
ATE calipers all stripped down, pistons out etc ready for cleaning and painting. im thinking black calipers. never been a fan of the red or yellow and silver means cleaning haha. also have a rear set i might strip and clean too...
£10 to go and i can get my engine stand ;)
no pics as my phone battery died...shame as i got stuck on a small mound of mud in the audi
Lifters stripped down and cleaned in engine degreaser and put back together
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32 lifters...16 genuine ones....16 slightly dodgy lookin.
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oopsy
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all interior is now out http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...5_972956_n.jpg
oops i snapped the dash
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all stripped out bar that black soundproofing stuff
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good to see a nother 5 door =] o btw you seem to have a part of a engin in the foot well
nice to know you finally got her back lol
more strippage since its not been raining. also finally got hold of a breaker bar since mine was in the nova when it got nicked and it didnt come back, those pesky kids :p
so...shafts came out, rad, fan, header tank, washer bottle. Hopefully at the weekend the engine and box will be out. so just the tank, rear beam, front struts to come out and its pretty much a shell...then the problems start since ill have no pennies to do anything lmao (so buy my bits in the forsale sec ;) )
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couldnt find the drain hole for the box (if it has one) so just loosened the diff cover :) oh the smell of gearbox oil brought back alot of memories from my cav days :( they were good times
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oh looks...a splash guard :d
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another solid section...and another splash guard :d
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i found some rust though :(
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and here she is as of tonight
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the wheels are diffrent and intresting i like them alot
Seat Cordoba twisty things
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today my breaker bar was every socket extension bar i could find all fitted together lol
wheels look good matey!
quick update...as i have no laptop and the one im using at the moment while i dog sit lol, the USB ports dont work no pics.
Its now basically a shell bar fuel tank/lines and the engine. Needing to sell my parts on the bay asap (or when i can be bothered to list it all) so i can fund the tools i need, and the new rear arches and engine bay plating kit.
R1 carbs are now purchased. um...thats all :)
Need to paint the bottom of the bumper from red to matt black imo - Dont worry I am a matt paint job fan :thumb: lol
Though as said already your wheels would look a lot better if you painted them white - Also you ever thought about doing the bottom half of the car satan black and the top half matt black with a red pinstripe along the middle to part to the two colours up - Would be something different from the normal matt black paint jobs out there :confused:
its being hacked up into a pickup and painted pink ;)
Good luck doing it to a Nova with 5 doors as you would be a lot better off doing it to a 3 door one
Out of interest, how much you pay for the carbs mate?
£125 buy it now. there were a few set on ebay, ranging from £99 auction start to £145 BINs
shud be a challenge doing it to the more door...
will be different, and sound awesome
heres a vid to look back on get motivation CLICKY
hehe how come this trumpets are comin right up? or is it because he didnt remove the bulkhead bit by the blower
oh look...half my dash is missing :p
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fibre glass will be sanded as it was only there as when i took the dash out...
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it had previously been HACKSAWED! **** knows who by as im the 2nd owner and the only other owner was OLD
and the secret so such a rust free shell...
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managed to blag a 2x1m sheet of aluminium (AW5754-H111 if any of you know what the hell that means) 1mm thick from work since it was being scrapped, to make some lovely front doorcards out of, and any other random things i can think of :d (anyone need heater blower blanking plates haha)
door cards cut out with a grinder :) edges need finishing tomorrow
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Lol loving the project I've gone down the matt black running on sum deep dish viva wheels big up the old skool :)
GTE bumper smoooooving
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and if anyone can tell me why my bumper has these two holes in it theres reppage (i think they are for spots)
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My bumper has those holes also.
No idea what theyre for.
im sure ive seen nova's with spotlights bolted in there before, by other 2 bumpers dont have them
My mk1 SR has big nasty dealer fit spot lights in holes there.
Smooth bumper looks good. Careful it doesn't bend and crack tho.
ive got my other smoothed one, but it has 4 20mm holes in it where i put some indicators and sidelights. so if this one goes wrong ill just fill them holes etc
OMG WTF update :o
finally got my ass into gear on this loverly day and went and had a good look round the shed. its faired rather well over winter :d then i set to work yanking the engine out
what seemed like 45 mins actually turned out to be 2 1/2 hours lol
after failing this way
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i went this way
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because the window doesnt close
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bottom passenger wing
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front lower cross member (is it easier to cut out and re-weld or replace the whole lot?)
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XE Head and crank, cams are in the boot
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and looking how the half dash thing looks....hmmm i wonder if someone would be able to possibly make a carbon one
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started cleaning up my calipers at work today...this took about an hour in my lashed up sandblasting box
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did some random marking out today for the cutting at the weekend...butting me buhket in and sitting in it to roughly work out where its going to be
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bit string like
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the thought about a different front end
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it all lined up perfectly
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even more so with the wings on
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be interested to see how that turns out mate if you do it :)
hope thats a vw front end nd hope your not goin to cut up that early tailgate lol
its a mk2 golf slam panel...and yes i am (more than likely) cutting up the early tailgate lol.Quote:
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i have a shonky mk2 (im sure it is) tailgate too... might chop that up first and see how that looks.
I hope that crank is being reground etc anyway? As the surface rust on it is gonna cause you issues otherwise.
yea i put it in there to stop any more rusting but now the windows etc will b coming out ill cake it in thick grease
i was strolling past the nova...grinder in hand, turned on, wearing glasses....as you do and i tripped
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OH NOES!!!! the early tailgate got caught in the accident too
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what back are you putting in it? astra estate??
yes, if i can find a mk2, which is incredibly unlikely, or a mk3 as im sure ive seen a mk3 one used before